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Main US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Disbanding, Joining IslamistsMon, 02 Mar 2015 11:02:20 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a1_1425311416
Shireen Said
One of the last moderate Syrian rebel groups trusted by Washington is waving the white flag-and picking up the Islamists' black one.
The Syrian rebel group Harakat al-Hazm, one of the White House's most trusted militias fighting President Bashar al-Assad, collapsed Sunday, with activists posting a statement online from frontline commanders saying they are disbanding their units and folding them into brigades aligned with a larger Islamist insurgent alliance distrusted by Washington.
The statement bore Hazm's stamp and logo, and according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, the brigade's fighting units are disbanding. Emails and phone calls to Hazm's political leaders were not returned.
"Given what is happening on the Syrian front, offenses by the criminal regime with its cronies against Syria as a whole, and Aleppo specifically, and in an effort to stem the bloodshed of the fighters, the Hazm movement announces its dissolution," the statement said.
Charles Lister, an analyst with U.S, think tank Brookings, described in a tweet the implosion of the group as " absolutely remarkable ."
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/572127836502409217
The apparent implosion comes just weeks after the Obama administration halved its funding of the 4,000-strong secular brigade-one of several more moderate rebel militias that have seen their U.S. funding cut or scaled back since Christmas.
Hazm has suffered an increasing number of defections in recent weeks in the face of repeated attacks from al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra on its remaining redoubts in Aleppo and in the area west of the city.
This weekend the brigade suffered 300 casualties, say opposition officials, from fighting with the jihadists, and its leaders say that to avoid further bloodshed they have had no choice but to dissolve themselves and throw in their lot with the larger Shamiah Front, an alliance of mainly-Islamist militias in Aleppo. They say the morale of the militia-one of the few rebel brigades to have been trusted in the past by the U.S. with TOW anti-tank rockets-had plummeted as the American money spigot was slowly turned off.
A U.S. official said the secular militia had no alternative but to disband. He said it will now be crucial to see what individual Hazm fighters do, indicating that he hoped some would volunteer for the train-and-equip program..
A 50-man intelligence unit formed by Hazm to assist in on-the-ground damage assessment of U.S. airstrikes on ISIS and to provide information on al Nusra was disbanded because of the funding reductions, a senior opposition source told The Daily Beast.
The cuts in Hazm's funding coincided with Obama administration aides claiming they were ramping up their efforts to launch a train-and-equip program-promised since September-for rebel militias, part of a U.S. effort to form a proxy force to battle the so-called Islamic State, commonly known as ISIS.
Hazm was frequently touted by Obama aides as one of the militias they could rely on-a brigade that could partner on train-and-equip.
But like other moderate militias, the program didn't sit well with Hazm fighters, who were infuriated with Washington at what they saw as a downgrading of their efforts to topple President Assad .
Hazm's problems with al Nusra, al Qaeda's franchise in Syria, have multiplied since late October when their jihadist foes overran several of the militia's key strongholds in Idlib, including Khan al-Subul, where it stored about 10 percent of its equipment. Hazm denied reports that al Nusra fighters managed to seize U.S.-supplied TOW anti-tank missiles, but conceded that al Nusra was able to secure 20 tanks, five of which were fully functional; six new armored personnel carriers recently supplied from overseas; and dozens of the group's walkie-talkies, which Hazm leaders bought themselves from Best Buy during a visit to the U.S.
As al Nusra pressed attacks on Hazm in Idlib province and also on the moderate Islamist rebel alliance, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front, commanders from Hazm appealed privately to the Obama administration to help them. That help never came.
The brigade's failure to hold the line against al Nusra-as well as the failure of other Western-backed armed groups to assist the beleaguered Hazm-was one of the reasons given to The Daily Beast by a State Department official for the cutbacks in funding for several rebel groups.
Another reason cited was the increasing tendency of the moderate and secular militias to coordinate with the Shamiah Front.
That alliance was formed on Christmas Day for the defense of besieged rebel-held areas in Aleppo, where Assad had launched a major offensive to encircle them. The front includes not only hardline Salafist factions from the groups known as the Islamic Front but more moderate brigades like the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Mujahideen Army and Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki, a militia that has also received TOW missiles from Washington in the past.
Aleppo-based rebels insist they have no choice but to work with the Front, which also coordinates operations against Syrian government forces inside Aleppo with al Nusra. "Without the front, Assad would overwhelm us," says a secular rebel commander. He and other brigade commanders say the Obama administration's train-and-equip plan has little to do with what is unfolding rapidly on the ground. Brigades are demoralized, disintegrating, and fighting among themselves.
The train-and-equip program has also earned sharp criticism from some U.S. lawmakers, who say it lacks clarity and has promoted profound suspicions among rebel groups that Washington is ready to cut some sort of deal with Assad while expecting Syrian rebels to sacrifice themselves to fight ISIS. Referring to the poorly planned and futile Confederate assault at Gettysburg, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has likened the strategy to Pickett's Charge.
In recent days Hazm's fight against al Nusra appeared even more forlorn. On Wednesday the jihadist group, which in effect has carved out an emirate of its own in Idlib, declared an all-out war on Hazm, accusing it of fomenting the conflict by arresting and executing their fighters in the west of Aleppo. Hazm commanders say all they have been doing is defending themselves.
"Jabhat a-Nusra, from the date of this announcement's publication, considers what was has been called 'Harakat Hazm,' in all its components, a direct target," the al-Qaeda affiliate said in a statement Wednesday. Hazm responded on Thursday, saying al Nusra had been abducting and attacking their fighters.
On Saturday, al Nusa fighters drove the U.S.-backed rebels out of a strategic northern military base in a battle that left dozens dead, activists said. At least 29 Hazm fighters and a half-dozen Nusra jihadis were killed in fighting for control of Base 46, a former regime facility west of Aleppo and Hazm's last major redoubt in the Aleppo countryside, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Residents in a nearby rebel-held village of Atareb criticized the jihadists for the attack and appealed in a statement to al Nusra to fight the "infidel regime and its allies" instead.
While al Nusra has been fighting the moderate armed opposition to Assad, it has been left alone by rival ISIS, with clashes between the competing jihadists all but ceasing.
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Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/01/main-u-s-backed-syrian-rebel-group-disbanding-joining-islamists.html?source=TDB&amp;amp;via=FB_Page
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Haraket Hazm's official announcement that they are dissolving:
I no Speak Arab, but I suppose some User can translate what it says or atleast verify that it indeed is a document from them stating that they are dissolving.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a1_1425311416Shireen SaidMain US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Disbanding, Joining IslamistsSyria, FSA, Free Syrian Army, Flee Simian Army, Moderate Rebels, Defeated, Collapse, Islamists, Terrorists, Jabhat al-Nusra, Nusra Front, al.Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, IS, Islamic State, Daesh, Satanic State, US, Washington, Obama, Kerry, McCain, Abu Bakr al-KharTaliban su"icide bomber strikes NATO diplomatic convoyThu, 26 Feb 2015 15:40:58 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=368_1424983006
NaregeitThe Afghan Taliban claimed credit for executing today's suicide attack in Kabul that struck a convoy transporting NATO's top diplomat to Afghanistan. A Turkish soldier and an Afghan civilian were killed in the blast.
The Taliban suicide bomber rammed his car into the NATO convoy as it traveled in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a neighborhood in the Afghan capital which hosts foreign embassies, a NATO base, and other sensitive installations. The attack took place "shortly after 8:00 am, not far from the Iranian embassy," a senior Afghan interior ministry official told Ariana News.
Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, NATO's new command in the country, confirmed that one "service member died as a result of an attack in Kabul today." But "the NATO Senior Civilian Representative," who previously was Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan, "was not involved and is unharmed."
The Taliban claimed today's attack in Kabul in an official statement that was released on its website, Voice of Jihad, as well as in tweets by one of its official spokesmen. The Taliban inflated the impact of the blast by claiming that a "number of the foreign invaders have been killed or wounded as martyr attack hit US-Nato military convoy in the heart of Kabul city."
"This came early this morning when a lone Mujahid of them martyr unit of the Islamic Emirate slammed his Corolla car filled with explosives into the convoy of the US-NATO convoy in Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul, damaging a number of the enemy vehicles and inflicting lethal losses on the enemy," the Taliban statement continued.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the nom de guerre for one of the jihadist group's top spokesmen, indicated that the attack was intended to target US military personnel, and not NATO's envoy.
"The purpose of today's attack in Kabul was a convoy of US troops, the embassy or any other country nationals were not objective," Mujahid tweeted.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=368_1424983006NaregeitTaliban su"icide bomber strikes NATO diplomatic convoyTaliban, Afghanistan, su"icide bomberGMO-, Hormon enriched- and ionised food is causeing cancer. Really?Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:26:49 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e08_1424949621
GermanNewsWell thats what all eco freaks are telling you. But what does the statistic say about that? Lets compare the USA and Germany to have two countries at the same technological level wich both have on avarage an equal good health care system.
In the USA a big amount of food is made of crops and lots of other plants wich are genetically altered. From some sorts of processed foods 90% of them including genetically altered bio material. In germany the amount that kind of food is close to zero.
The sterilizeing of food by ionisation is a common thing in the USA. After a big demonizing campaign in the 90s by the green party such kind of food is nearby not sold in germany because nobody would by it.
Using hormons for breeding cattle is allowed and widly used in the USA. In germany completly forbidden. Its also forbidden to import such meat.
While in the US the organic food movement started lately to spread from hipsters and rich people into the public mind, its in germany since the 70s like a permanently growing crazy religion for everyone. Except of the poor they eat trash like in any other country too. (Basically that organic food movement was started around 1935 by the nazis. People just forgot that.)
Influences from the environment like unhealthy construction materials wich may cause cancer or regions where the ground is encriched with carcinogen poisens are in germany close to zero. The radiation exposure country wide is by the way on avarage the same for both countries.
So if the tree huggers and food health warners would be right, germany should be a country with a really small amount of people dying of cancer and in the USA cancer should be like a mass epedemic wich kills every second person.
There is only one problem with all of that. The statistics about death by cancer says the absolut opposit.
Country
Dying of cancer per 100.000 citicens (Age 30-70)
Date
Rank
In numbers
Mongolei 1284
105% 2008-
Ungarn 2262
96% 2008-
Armenien 3239
87% 2008-
Serbien 4236
86% 2008-
Nauru 5231
84% 2008-
Kasachstan 6221
80% 2008-
Polen 7219
79% 2008-
Grenada 8211
76% 2008-
Moldawien 9204
73% 2008-
Litauen 9204
73% 2008-
Kroatien 11203
73% 2008-
Rum"anien 12202
72% 2008-
Lettland 12202
72% 2008-
Slowakei 14200
71% 2008-
Seychellen 15199
71% 2008-
Belarus (Weissrussland) 16198
71% 2008-
Uruguay 16198
71% 2008-
Kirgisistan 18197
70% 2008-
Bulgarien 19196
70% 2008-
S"udafrika 20193
69% 2008-
Tschechische Republik 21191
68% 2008-
Uganda 21191
68% 2008-
Aserbaidschan 23188
67% 2008-
Tuvalu 23188
67% 2008-
Gambia 25183
65% 2008-
Bangladesch 25183
65% 2008-
Libanon 25183
65% 2008-
Estland 28181
64% 2008-
Russische F"oderation 29180
63% 2008-
China 30179
63% 2008-
Nepal 31178
63% 2008-
Kenia 31178
63% 2008-
Guinea 33177
62% 2008-
Mazedonien 33177
62% 2008-
Slowenien 35176
62% 2008-
Laos 36173
61% 2008-
Turkmenistan 37172
60% 2008-
Bhutan 38171
60% 2008-
Mali 38171
60% 2008-
D"anemark 40170
59% 2008-
Ukraine 40170
59% 2008-
Montenegro 40170
59% 2008-
Frankreich 43169
59% 2008-
S~ao Tom'e und Pr'incipe 43169
59% 2008-
Vietnam 45168
59% 2008-
Papua-Neuguinea 45168
59% 2008-
Albanien 45168
59% 2008-
Honduras 48166
58% 2008-
Guinea-Bissau 48166
58% 2008-
Sambia 48166
58% 2008-
Marshallinseln 48166
58% 2008-
Niederlande 52165
57% 2008-
Argentinien 52165
57% 2008-
Indonesien 52165
57% 2008-
Antigua und Barbuda 55164
57% 2008-
T"urkei 56163
57% 2008-
Malawi 56163
57% 2008-
Burma 58162
56% 2008-
Dominica 59161
56% 2008-
Burundi 59161
56% 2008-
Benin 59161
56% 2008-
Portugal 59161
56% 2008-
Kuba 63159
55% 2008-
Ruanda 64158
55% 2008-
Simbabwe 65157
54% 2008-
Kambodscha 66156
54% 2008-
Jamaika 67155
53% 2008-
St. Kitts und Nevis 68154
53% 2008-
Madagaskar 68154
53% 2008-
Jordanien 70153
53% 2008-
Vanuatu 71152
52% 2008-
Senegal 71152
52% 2008-
Pakistan 71152
52% 2008-
Ghana 74151
52% 2008-
Belgien 74151
52% 2008-
Deutschland
Germany76150
51% 2008-
Fidschi 76150
51% 2008-
Somalia 76150
51% 2008-
Irland 76150
51% 2008-
Liberia 80149
51% 2008-
Nigeria 81148
51% 2008-
Mauretanien 82147
50% 2008-
Guatemala 83146
50% 2008-
Kap Verde 84144
49% 2008-
Grossbritannien 84144
49% 2008-
Georgien 86143
49% 2008-
Burkina Faso 86143
49% 2008-
USA 86143
49% 2008-
Togo 86143
49% 2008-
Mosambik 86143
49% 2008-
Osttimor 91141
48% 2008-
St. Vincent und die Grenadinen 91141
48% 2008-
St. Lucia 91141
48% 2008-
Malaysia 91141
48% 2008-
Komoren 95140
47% 2008-
Barbados 95140
47% 2008-
"Osterreich 95140
47% 2008-
Spanien 95140
47% 2008-
Libyen 95140
47% 2008-
Brasilien 100139
47% 2008-
El Salvador 101138
47% 2008-
Kongo, Demokratische Republik 101138
47% 2008-
Kanada 101138
47% 2008-
Norwegen 101138
47% 2008-
Luxemburg 101138
47% 2008-
Griechenland 106137
46% 2008-
Bosnien und Herzegowina 106137
46% 2008-
Neuseeland 106137
46% 2008-
Thailand 109136
46% 2008-
Paraguay 110135
45% 2008-
Philippinen 111134
45% 2008-
Irak 111134
45% 2008-
Guyana 113133
45% 2008-
Sierra Leone 113133
45% 2008-
Korea, S"ud 113133
45% 2008-
"Athiopien 116132
44% 2008-
Monaco 116132
44% 2008-
Italien 116132
44% 2008-
Palau 119131
44% 2008-
Afghanistan 119131
44% 2008-
"Agypten 121130
43% 2008-
Tschad 121130
43% 2008-
Sri Lanka 121130
43% 2008-
Peru 121130
43% 2008-
Angola 121130
43% 2008-
Niger 126129
43% 2008-
Trinidad und Tobago 127128
43% 2008-
Tunesien 128127
42% 2008-
Schweiz 128127
42% 2008-
Marokko 128127
42% 2008-
Algerien 128127
42% 2008-
Dominikanische Republik 132126
42% 2008-
Dschibuti 132126
42% 2008-
Bahamas 132126
42% 2008-
Tadschikistan 132126
42% 2008-
Singapur 132126
42% 2008-
Andorra 132126
42% 2008-
Ecuador 138125
41% 2008-
Chile 138125
41% 2008-
Belize 138125
41% 2008-
Israel 138125
41% 2008-
Australien 138125
41% 2008-
Salomonen 143124
41% 2008-
Nicaragua 143124
41% 2008-
Malta 145123
41% 2008-
Kamerun 146122
40% 2008-
Zentralafrikanische Republik 147121
40% 2008-
Schweden 147121
40% 2008-
Island 147121
40% 2008-
"Aquatorialguinea 150120
39% 2008-
Korea, Nord 150120
39% 2008-
Eritrea 152119
39% 2008-
Japan 152119
39% 2008-
Oman 154118
39% 2008-
Gabun 155117
38% 2008-
Swasiland 155117
38% 2008-
Finnland 157113
37% 2008-
Kongo, Rpublik 157113
37% 2008-
Usbekistan 157113
37% 2008-
Tansania 157113
37% 2008-
Kolumbien 161112
36% 2008-
Jemen 161112
36% 2008-
Venezuela 161112
36% 2008-
Iran 164111
36% 2008-
Mikronesien 165110
35% 2008-
Mauritius 165110
35% 2008-
Panama 167109
35% 2008-
Lesotho 167109
35% 2008-
San Marino 169108
35% 2008-
Indien 169108
35% 2008-
Costa Rica 171107
34% 2008-
Brunei 171107
34% 2008-
Bolivien 173105
33% 2008-
Tonga 173105
33% 2008-
C^ote d'Ivoire 175104
33% 2008-
Suriname 176102
32% 2008-
Sudan 177100
31% 2008-
Mexiko 17894
29% 2008-
Katar 17993
29% 2008-
Niue 17993
29% 2008-
Haiti 18189
27% 2008-
Saudi-Arabien 18281
24% 2008-
Kuwait 18281
24% 2008-
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate 18478
23% 2008-
Samoa 18577
22% 2008-
Zypern 18675
21% 2008-
Syrien 18675
21% 2008-
Bahrain 18873
21% 2008-
Namibia 18873
21% 2008-
Kiribati 19068
19% 2008-
Botswana 19166
18% 2008-
Cookinseln 19263
17% 2008-
Malediven 19359
15% 2008-
And here is a litte fun fact for the vegetarians and vegans. Did you know that you have a 30% higher risk of getting bowel cancer if you are a vegetarian over a longer time? True story.
( Do not be confused about that in swaziland and equal the people have less cancer then in modern countries. That just means that they kill each other, die of other plaques or witchcraft before they even get the chance to develope cancer.)http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e08_1424949621GermanNewsGMO-, Hormon enriched- and ionised food is causeing cancer. Really?gmo, hormon, foodSensing Weakness, Jabhat Al-Nusra Trys to Steal IS' Mojo: Invites Defectors to JoinTue, 24 Feb 2015 20:50:17 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c6_1424827369
TavarHEARTS, MINDS AND BLACK FLAGS:
Jabhat Al-Nusra's data dump takes aim at the Islamic State
The Jabhat Al-Nusra (JAN) Media Committee in the Eastern Region opens a dedicated website for anti-IS propaganda entitled "The Islamic State: A Caliphate of Tyranny and Corruption" on February 17. The website contains 4.5 GB of videos, photos, documents, and voice recordings attacking IS methods and ideology. Open Syria considers JAN's media strategy, outlines the website contents, and presents it to the public for review.
The Jabhat Al-Nusra (JAN) Media Committee in the Eastern Region has launched a website to discredit the Islamic State (IS), attacking its ideology, religiosity, conduct in war and state administration while calling it "dangerous at every level."
The website, entitled "The Islamic State: A Caliphate of Tyranny and Corruption, " contains more than 220 videos, photos, documents and voice recordings attacking IS methods and ideology.
"It works intellectually and politically; we must thus face it with the same weapons," JAN writes of IS in the website preamble.
The release fits JAN's soft-power strategy to capture Syria's hearts and minds, a condition Al-Qaeda and JAN consider essential to establishing a regressive Islamist emirate in Syria.
Open Syria has not reviewed all of the website's content. Certain themes however clearly emerge from the posted material. Firstly, JAN discredits IS political and religious legitimacy, repeating three accusations: IS sows strife between the ranks of the jihadi opposition ; unjustly excommunicates Muslims ; and brutalizes "Muslims in general and the mujahedeen in particular."
The website, according to its preamble, is "a message we have decided to send to the whole of the Ummah." It includes purported videos and photos of IS civilian and POW executions, and testimonies of people "from inside the State." It also presents leaked voice recordings
of alleged IS religious scholars calling Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban's Mullah Muhammed Omar, and JAN fighters apostates .
Throughout the website, JAN refers to IS as the "Baghdadi Organization," or the "Group of the State," thereby denying its claim to a caliphate.
To these media, JAN adds video, voice, and written statements by JAN and central Al-Qaeda leadership and Shura Council members, including Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Abu Muhammed Al- Jolani, and Abu Abdullah Al-Shami. Each in turn demands an end to both infighting between jihadi factions, and excommunication, a prerogative of the Prophet or the state representative of the Ummah.
JAN then positions itself as the protector of the Ummah.
In voice statements, Zawahiri and Al-Jolani celebrate the Syrian people, call for the destruction of the Assad regime, denounce brawling, corrupt rebels, and call the bond of Islam, uniting the Ummah, "stronger than any political, party, or sectarian ties."
This conciliatory tone, defining the role of jihadi organizations as the vanguard and defenders of a righteous revolution, an extension of the will of the Ummah, fits JAN's people-first, soft-power strategy. This new image is then contrasted with a discredited IS, exposed as irreligious and criminal. JAN hopes to emerge as the obvious alternative.
Open Syria considers JAN's media strategy, outlines the website contents, and presents it to the public for review.
JN writes it seeks to expose IS malfeasance in the website preamble . JN's propaganda campaign to malign IS aligns with its strategy to above all capture the support of the Syrian people, in contrast to Al-Baghdadi's lightning campaign to win a caliphate by gun.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c6_1424827369TavarSensing Weakness, Jabhat Al-Nusra Trys to Steal IS' Mojo: Invites Defectors to Joinaleppo, raqqah, isis, nusra, isil, islamic state, b-diddi, caliphate, daesh, daeshbags, daesholes, jihadi, syria, saa, assad, ypg, ypj, assyrian, mfs, flip flap paddiwackUkraine - Kiev agrees with UAE on a lethal weapons dealTue, 24 Feb 2015 08:39:21 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b68_1424784723
Terminator800The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates, General Colonel by Muhammad bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
The meeting reached an agreement on cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine supply of certain types of weapons and military equipment.
The types and amounts of supplies, as you understand, divulged on Facebook are not eligible.
However, it's worth pointing out the fact that Arabs are in contrast to the Europeans and Americans do not fear threats to Putin on the outbreak of World War III in the case of supplies of Ukrainian arms and military equipment.
They have in addition to Putin apparently have their own bills for lower oil prices almost doubled and overall global instability prevents long-term development of the U.A.E..
So this will be their little revenge.
Photo of Petro Poroshenko and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during an official photo shoot.
Anton Gerashenko's Facebook. Scroll down to see the post
https://www.facebook.com/anton.gerashchenko.7http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b68_1424784723Terminator800Ukraine - Kiev agrees with UAE on a lethal weapons dealUkraine, Donbass, Donetsk, Lugansk, UAE, lethal, weapons, dealISIL to Declare Islamic State in LebanonTue, 24 Feb 2015 00:26:04 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=200_1424755044
TavarISIS is preparing military plans to declare an Islamic emirate in Lebanon very soon to serve as a geographical extension of the so-called "Islamic State" announced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq last year, security sources said.
ISIS fighters have demanded support from the militant group in northern Syria to achieve this goal, the sources said.
They added that the ISIS command has begun preparations to set up a military organizational committee tasked with running Lebanese affairs and considering Lebanon as part of its state.
However, ISIS is facing difficulties in choosing a Lebanese commander for this mission. The reported appointment of the fugitive preacher Ahmad al-Assir for this post was merely a trial balloon, the sources said.
They added that arrangements to form an ISIS command for the Lebanon emirate were taking place under the supervision of the group commander Khalaf al-Zeyabi Halous, codenamed "Abu Musaab Halous," a Syrian who had played a key role in the ISIS offensive to capture the Raqqa province in 2013.
Abu Musaab Halous, accompanied by a number of ISIS military commanders, recently visited the Qalamoun region on the Lebanese-Syrian border, where he met with field commanders with whom he discussed the creation of security and military formations between Qalamoun and Lebanon, the sources said.
In addition to the fact that the adventure of setting up an Islamic emirate in Lebanon has not received the green light from the powers backing ISIS, the group's attempt expand into Lebanon might be doomed to failure, the sources added.
In the meantime, an influential party in Lebanon has received important information indicating that ISIS is bent on recruiting more suicide bombers equipped with explosives belts to target Shiite gatherings in Beirut and the southern suburbs as well as French and Western interests, while
the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which was targeted with a deadly twin suicide attack in November 2013, is still vulnerable to another assault.
As Lebanon faces growing security threats, military assistance to the Lebanese Army is expected to be stepped up to help the country stand on its feet.
The United States will provide the Lebanese Army with six Super Cobra fighter aircraft as part of the U.S. military aid to the Army, reports said. The aircraft are manufactured by the Bell military helicopter company.
Also, sources close to the military establishment said that America had agreed to sell some F-5 fighter jets to the Lebanese Army in the next five months.
This coincided with official and party security reports that terrorist organizations, at the forefront of which are ISIS and the Nusra Front, are preparing to launch attacks deep into Lebanese territory, not only from the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal, but also from along the
eastern frontier.
Manufactured by the Northrop company, the F-5 jets, first designed in 1950s and put into operation in 1960s, are used by some Arab armies (and modified by Iran which pretends it made a new jet, too). The aircraft has a range of 1,400 km with maximum speed of 1,700 km.
The U.S. has already provided aid to the Lebanese Army including armored vehicles, machine guns and ammunition warehouses, which the military needs in its battle against militant groups on various fronts along the common border with Syria.
Sourced at:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Feb-23/288379-isis-preparing-to-declare-islamic-emirate-in-lebanon-sources.ashx#sthash.XJXfWDrh.dpuf
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e8e_1423423299http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=200_1424755044TavarISIL to Declare Islamic State in Lebanonlebanon, syria, assad, hezbollah, nasrallah, nusrallah, israel, isis, isil, is, islamic state, daesh, daesholes, glam on to get some goodies, shia, alawite, druzeISIS Up Shit Creek if Russia Shares Intel with USSat, 21 Feb 2015 23:44:41 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1424579018
TavarRussia and US Look at Activating Wonder-Twin Powers
Intelligence sharing between Russia and the United States regarding the Islamic State (IS) group is "quite possible," the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, has said.
"Current events are of such a serious nature that we need to unite," Bortnikov said, according to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti .
Bortnikov made his comments to reporters in Washington, D.C., where he is part of a Russian delegation at the Obama administration's antiextremism conference in Washington.
"The issue of partnership between our service , of which I am the head, is very important for us. In the first stages of active counteroperations we must apply special measures and means to locate terrorist attacks knowledge of the situation is very important and, of course, intelligence sharing with our partners in this regard," Bortnikov told reporters.
Bortnikov also told reporters that as many as 1,700 Russian nationals could be fighting alongside the IS group in Iraq. "Right now, there are around 1,700 Russian nationals in Iraq and this number has practically doubled over the past year," he said.
The head of the FSB said that Russia must prevent its citizens from leaving to join militant groups. "We must undertake work to prevent the departure, and on the other hand do whatever is needed so that after these citizens return to their countries of origin we avoid
terrorist attacks," Bortnikov said.
It is noticeable and significant that, while Bortnikov was ready to admit that Russian nationals are fighting alongside IS militants in Iraq, he did not say that Russian nationals were fighting in Syria. Why not, given that evidence points to the presence of Russian nationals in Syria and in far greater numbers that in Iraq?
The reason for Bortnikov's omission of Syria as the main theater for Russian nationals fighting not only with IS but with other Islamist militant factions is likely a purely political one. As Syria's most
powerful ally, Moscow has led a diplomatic campaign to paint the Syrian conflict as a battle between the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad and illegal, armed terrorist groups sponsored by outside forces and consisting of foreign fighters.
An open admission that Russian nationals are part of that illegal, terrorist force is less than optimal for Moscow's position. Far easier, therefore, to focus entirely on Iraq.
Bortnikov's evasion reflects a trend that has been noticeable elsewhere in Russia's portrayal of how its nationals are fighting in Syria. While the several court cases involving returning fighters (mainly from the North Caucasus) have accused the militants of fighting in Syria, the courts have been vague about giving details of which groups the militants allegedly belonged to. In most cases, it appears that this evasiveness is likely in order to avoid mentioning the fact some Russian nationals have been fighting with Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (JMA), the Syrian affiliate of the main North Caucasus militant group, the Caucasus Emirate.
Beyond these issues, the presence of Russian nationals in Syria and Iraq has been a bone of contention and source of great embarrassment for the head of the pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who has insisted that most ethnic Chechens in Syria are from Europe.
While there is no official data that break down the exact numbers and identities of Russian nationals in Syria, analysis of social media and other Internet resources has offered some insights into participants in the armed conflict.
This evidence indicates that most of the Russian nationals in Syria (and, far more recently, Iraq) are from the Northern Caucasus republics of Daghestan, Chechnya, Karachai-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. A recent video published by the Caucasus Emirate affiliate JMA showed a
group of militants who identified themselves as being from the Terek-Kuma Lowland or Nogai Steppe region of Stavropol Krai, Chechnya, and Daghestan.
There is also evidence, including reports of court cases against returning fighters, that there are some militants from Russia's Tatar region, particularly Kazan .
Not all of the Russian-speaking militants in Syria are from the Russian Federation, however: others in this group include ethnic Chechens from the Chechen diaspora in Europe and Turkey, Kists from the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, Tatars from the Crimea, and at least one Ukrainian convert to Islam.
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-fsb-chief-share-intel-with-us-on-islamic-state/26860021.html
http://rustelegraph.ru/news/2015-02-18/Direktor-FSB-Rossii-Aleksandr-Bortnikov-po-porucheniyu-Putina-vyletel-v-Vashington-26666/
http://ria.ru/world/20150220/1048709687.html
http://www.newsweek.com/1700-russians-fighting-isis-says-head-russian-secret-service-308206http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1424579018TavarISIS Up Shit Creek if Russia Shares Intel with USrussia, fsb, usa, isis, isil, islamic state, daesh, daesholes, syria, iraq, iran, chechen, caucus, tatar, kazan, kurds, assad, team up and kill isis why don't ya Saudi preacher demonstrates: The earth does not revolve around ItselfThu, 19 Feb 2015 10:22:26 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3fa_1424359053
aydeoBandar Al-Khaybari, a preacher with the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Al-Madina, claimed that the Earth is fixed and does not revolve around itself, during a series of lectures held in the Sharjah emirate, between January 28 and 31. The lectures were posted on the Internet.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3fa_1424359053aydeoSaudi preacher demonstrates: The earth does not revolve around ItselfSaudi preacher,Earth,Revolve,Moon,LandingI'm Still Egypt's Legitimate President': Morsi in New Trial Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:33:45 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f8_1424115146
AlAlamFormer Egyptian president charged with leaking documents to Qatar, declares he doesn't recognize the court's authority.
Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was placed on trial on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, but he once again declared that he does not recognize the court's authority.
Morsi, who was toppled by the army in 2013 after mass protests against his rule, insisted that he was still Egypt's legitimate president, Reuters reported from Cairo.
"This court does not represent anything to me," declared Morsi, who was on trial with 10 other people. The maximum penalty if he is convicted is death.
The former Islamist president is facing several trials in Egypt. In one trial he is being accused of inciting the killings of opposition protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012.
Another of Morsi's trials cites his role in a 2011 jailbreak which saw the deaths of several police officers.
A fourth trial will be held over charges of insulting the judiciary.
In yet another one he is accused, along with 35 others, of working with foreign Arab groups to carry out terror attacks in Egypt.
The trial which began Sunday revolves around allegations that Morsi leaked secret documents to Qatar and its satellite news channel Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera, which is owned by the government of Qatar, has been called "the Muslim Brotherhood channel" and has been blamed for stirring up much of the violence that has rocked the Middle East in recent years and is often referred to as the Arab revolution.
Relations between Qatar and Egypt have been icy since July 2013 when the army overthrew Morsi and launched a security crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lately, however, Qatar and Egypt have been trying to restore their ties. In December, Qatar declared its support for Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, despite his crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sisi later met with an envoy from the emirate, and Al-Jazeera also shut down its Egypt channel, quieting a major source of tension between the two countries.
- See more at: http://en.alalam.ir/news/1676902#sthash.E0Zf6YKw.dpufhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f8_1424115146AlAlamI'm Still Egypt's Legitimate President': Morsi in New Trial egypt - ISIS - morsiFootage shows Boko Haram's latest deadly attackSun, 15 Feb 2015 08:45:09 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97f_1424007901
EuronewsAriel footage released on Saturday shows the destruction caused by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on a village in Chad a day earlier.
Arriving by motorboat in the middle of the night, the rebels set houses ablaze and attacked a police station in Ngouboua on Lake Chad.
Several people were killed.
The attack was Boko Haram's first strike on Chad. They already control a large area of northwestern Nigeria after deadly attacks on several cities and towns.
Bayana Kossingar, the regional governor said:
"We knew it would happen eventually. But this will never happen again. We have troops coming in to protect the region. Once the area is secure, people will come back and they will stay."
On Saturday, Nigerian troops repelled the latest violence by the jihadists on the city of Gombe.
Nigeria has postponed a presidential election, thathad been due on Saturday, for six weeks, citing the security threat from the militant group.
Boko Haram seeks to carve out an Islamist emirate around the borders of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97f_1424007901EuronewsFootage shows Boko Haram's latest deadly attackEuronewsChechen Terrorists Accuse &quot;Islamic State&quot; of Treating Recruits as 'Cannon Fodder'Tue, 03 Feb 2015 06:59:52 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e5f_1422964558
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A social media account linked to the Chechen-led faction Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (JMA), which considers itself to be the Syrian affiliate of the North Caucasus militant group the Caucasus Emirate, has accused the Islamic State (IS) group of using inexperienced young recruits as "cannon fodder."
The account, which appears to be run by a female JMA supporter who calls herself Aygul Salagayeva or Bely Sneg ("White Snow"), is one of the largest pro-JMA accounts with a presence on both Facebook and the Russian social network VKontakte. The account often posts the opinions of North Caucasian militants in JMA.
JMA, which also has an Islamist ideology and which fights the Syrian government alongside groups like Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, has been in an increasingly bitter ideological battle with the Islamic State group since December 2013.
The post on February 2 accuses the Islamic State group and its propagandists, including a Russian-speaking individual who uses the alias Murad Atayev and appears to be located in Turkey, of deceiving young recruits.
"Young people cheated by propaganda from those such as Murad Atayev and similar media workers of the "Baghdadi State" about a "great victory" are rushing to join this sect, thinking that they are going to a "caliphate" that is growing every day," the post by Salagayeva says.
The post goes on to claim that the Islamic State's leadership is in disarray.
"In reality, leadership is panicking and throwing these novices into battle without giving them necessary information about the enemy and without equipping them with the required weapons (which it hasn't got, it's been left in Kobani, etc.)," Salagayeva goes on to say.
The remark about the Islamic State's leadership is likely a reference not only to the group's overall leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but also to Umar Shishani, the IS military commander in Syria, a Russian-speaking militant from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.
Chechen militants fighting in JMA and with the group named Seyfullakh Shishani's Jamaat, which is part of Jabhat al-Nusra, have previously accused Umar Shishani of using foreign fighter recruits for "cannon fodder" as a military strategy. One militant, who goes by the name Khalid Shishani and who fights with Seyfullakh Shishani's Jamaat, has blamed Umar Shishani for causing high casualty rates in battles because of this tactic.
Salagayeva's post goes on to criticize the Islamic State's recent tactic of making videos in which militants call on Muslims from their home countries to carry out attacks against civilians.
"Being unable to repulse the enemy with modern weapons, these people actively made videos of mass killings and urged their supporters to murder ordinary citizens in Europe and America," Salagayeva wrote.
The post ends with a call to wanna-be militants not to join Islamic State.
"So you who are in a hurry come here to wage jihad; if you want to die in a questionable way and get a dubious martyrdom , considering where and how you will die -- you should really go to . But those of you who want to fight in Allah's path, stay away from this meat grinder," the post concludes.
The post is the latest example of a recent trend of social media accounts linked to JMA and other anti-IS Chechen militants in Syria openly criticizing the Islamic State group.
Last week, accounts linked to JMA expressed positive reactions to the Kurdish victory over the IS group in Kobani, even though they insisted that they do not support the Kurds.
The trend reflects the increasing animosity between North Caucasus militants in IS and those in other factions, particularly JMA. The growing rift between the factions -- which began after Umar Shishani left the letter to pledge allegiance to IS leader Baghdadi in December 2013 -- has been exacerbated in recent weeks after a number of Caucasus Emirate groups, mostly in Dagestan, pledged allegiance to the IS group.
-- Joanna Paraszczuk
Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-state-chechen-militants-cannon-fodder/26826487.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e5f_1422964558thesharkChechen Terrorists Accuse &quot;Islamic State&quot; of Treating Recruits as 'Cannon Fodder'jma, isis, islamic state, daesh, terrorism, chechen, kurds, kurdistan, syria, iraqLinks Between Right Sector and Caucasian <span class="highlight">Emirate</span> Links Go Back to Chechen WarSun, 18 Jan 2015 09:12:53 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89f_1421589275
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Alexander Muzychko shown in 1994 praising Allah with fighters from the Al-Qaeda linked Caucasian Emirate now called the deputy emir of Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar or sometimes refered to as Daesh or the Islamic State in Syria. Muzychko is pictures in the video (third on his right) with Crimean Tartar Abdul Karim al-Ukraini the deputy emir of Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar.
At the present time Abdul Karim al-Ukraini sometime called Abdul-Karem al -Crimeri is believed to be in Ukraine preparing for an influx of fighters.
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https://theother14.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/links-between-right-sector-and-listed-al-qaeda-affilaite-go-back-to-chechen-war-some-background-notes/http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89f_1421589275StalinLivesLinks Between Right Sector and Caucasian <span class="highlight">Emirate</span> Links Go Back to Chechen WarCaucasian Emirate, Right Sector, UNA-UNSO, Abdul Karim al-Ukraini